ModularAmerican🇺🇸

American Post Liberal. Hater of Misogyny, Fascism, and Blind Hatred. Believer of Love and Intolerance.

[Josh Ferme @JoshFerme]

I am delighted to announce that I am joining Restore Britain as part of the policy team.

We know how to fix the mess our country finds itself in, and I look forward to sharing how with you in the months ahead.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Mao killed more people than Hitler. If Hasan Piker had dressed like a Nazi, we'd have an appropriate outrage. But because commies have infiltrated all our institutions & lied about how evil they are, we don't get the National Socialists were no worse than all other socialists.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

Most people complaining about the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey don’t fully understand what they’re objecting to because it's deeper than they realize: As such, I'll explain.

The unease they feel runs deeper than superficial complaints about “realism” or skin tone. What they can't articulate is their objection to universalizing the particular; an error characteristic of philosophical liberalism.

The Odyssey is not a universal story. It is not a detachable “hero’s journey” that can be stripped of its cultural origins and modernized for contemporary audiences. Its power lies in its particularity. The audience must do the work of closing the gap; the text does not come to us.

The values that animate it, xenia (reciprocal guest-friendship), oikos (the household and its obligations), mētis (cunning intelligence), kleos (glory), and timē (honor), are not interchangeable with modern liberal abstractions. They are embedded in a specific ancient Greek moral and social world. They are not timeless “human themes” floating free of context.

This is why the Odyssey functions today primarily as an educational text rather than popular entertainment, as it once did. It belonged to the moral universe of ancient Greece. It does not belong to ours. Its value lies precisely in its alienness: it forces us to encounter a distinct way of thinking about justice, loyalty, hospitality, and human excellence.

When critics complain that an adaptation “isn’t realistic,” they are grasping for the most accessible language to express a deeper discomfort. What actually bothers them is the erosion of cultural fidelity; the required deracination for modern audiences stripping it of its required context, which in turn strips it of all of the value that it contains. A universal Odyssey has no value.

In attempting to globalize the Odyssey, they erase what remains of an already dead culture; killing even its ghost. Ancient Greece is gone, yet we have preserved its artifacts and stories not because they resemble us, but because they are different. The point of engaging with them is to contend with what is foreign, not to replace it with comforting modernity.

Ancient Greece is remarkable, horrifying, marvelous, repulsive, and admirable all at once. It is not a culture we would want to inhabit, but it is one from which we still benefit by struggling to understand it on its own terms. Turning it into a generic vehicle for contemporary sensibilities performs a kind of reverse alchemy: it transforms something rare and demanding into something familiar and undemanding, thus making gold into lead.

[Sowellstradamus @sowellstradamus]

Republicans, to their voters:

“We joined the Democrats to put section 8 housing in your suburbs. No, we’re not going to pass the SAVE Act, lol. We WANT to lose the midterms. We’re not *really* America First or even conservatives anyway. We want to go back to being the whiny minority and taking donor money to import compliant foreign labor to undercut your children.

“PS: yes, we actually do hate you. Not sorry”

It has been said many times, but you don’t hate the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP enough

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

‘Radical’ Muslims have destroyed thousands of churches in the Middle East and forced 2 million indigenous Christians to flee their homes.

They consider Christians infidels who must convert, pay jizya, or be killed.

Zero outrage by leftists or ‘moderate’ Muslims!

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

I barely knew a thing about Nolan other than his one Batman movie before the Odyssey trailers. I’d never seen his face and I still don’t know what he sounds like. But just seeing his quotes and his face has completely convinced me he is the biggest condescending, elitist prick.

When all of Hollywood is put out out of business by Chat-gpt I’ll be there laughing, I dgaf if some of them are objectively talented, they can whine to Mel Gibson about it for all I care.

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@adamkjohnston How’s about forever?

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@WadePlem FIFA speedrunning Soccer never becoming popular in America.

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@woodyVSworld Watching that shit I thought, yeah there’s a reason I don’t even like this sport as an American. Honestly lost all of the interest and fun that built up over the last few weeks.

Soccer is lame and gay and it would still be so even if our team had made it further.

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@dyingscribe I spent every year of my life between learning to read and when I was finally forced to get a smartphone(age 6-18) reading increasingly long books. They ranged easily between 150-850 pages long. Reading is not hard or a chore so long as you discover enjoyment in it young.

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@StephenFleming I didn’t get a license until I was forced to by circumstance. What does a young person even need a car for? Obligations that require you to go places(like a job) often enough that asking your parents to drive you everywhere gets inconvenient.

Freedom? Just take a goddamn walk.

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@KevinLamb74 Naah, don’t do this to me. Dragonlance was the first big book series I read as a kid, and was what got me into fantasy reading. I couldn’t handle seeing it turned into another Rings of Power or Wheel of Time.

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@AndrewCFollett Please just kill me. Every time I see/hear a fuckin commie screech about “safety nets” and “quality of life” I just think about how much of America’s money is just being goddamn filched by brain dead loser thieves…

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@SukritGanesh Fuuuck off. Lmao this forest preserve needs ugly ass tall buildings so as to accommodate dumbasses who don’t give af about anything.

Nah.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

On my way, Clacton.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The continued existence of the H-1B program is an insult to every American

It exists to steal jobs from Americans and drive down wages

The GOP won’t take action to abolish it because they’re slaves to the donor class that want cheap labor

[ModularAmerican🇺🇸 @ModularAmerican]

@souljagoyteller You remind me of myself at 14 years old.

I fucking hated that guy. He was a midwit prick who thought he wasn’t.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

Dearborn, Michigan — America’s first Arab-majority city.

Police force Arabized to 45%. Streets renamed after Arabs. Call to prayer blasts 5x daily. “Death to America” chants at rallies.

The FBI just stopped a planned terrorist attack here.

This is conquest, not immigration.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate.

Fahrenheit feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.”

Zero is freezing. 100 is brutally hot.
70 is comfortable. 80 is warm.

The numbers feel like what they are describing.

Celsius feels like it was designed by a committee of people who hate joy and want every conversation about the weather to sound like a chemistry lab.

“It’s 22 degrees outside.”

What does that even mean to a normal person? Am I wearing shorts? Am I grabbing a jacket?

Nobody knows. You need a conversion chart and a government employee standing next to you explaining the vibes.

Fahrenheit gives you range. That’s the point. It gives you more numbers for the temperatures human beings actually live in. You can feel the difference between 68, 72, 76, and 80. Those numbers matter. Fahrenheit lets you describe the world with more precision without having to break into decimals like a lunatic.

And here’s the other thing...

Celsius is connected to the metric cult energy that came out of the French Revolution. And the French Revolution was evil. Both of the Revolution were to rip out tradition, faith, monarchy, hierarchy, the Church, the calendar, the clock, and anything that reminded man he was not God.

CELSIUS IS INHERENTLY EVIL

So yes, Celsius may be useful if you’re boiling water in a lab. Congratulations. But Fahrenheit is for living LIFE because Fahrenheit is for walking outside and instantly knowing what kind of day you’re about to have.

100 means hot. 70 means beautiful. Zero means don’t go outside unless you have a death wish.

That’s a real system.